On a weekend when UNC-CH, Clemson and Georgia Tech all advanced to the College World Series (with Miami still surviving), the Atlantic Coast Conference won another National Championship when Florida State won its first ever NCAA men’s track and field national championship in Sacramento, California. (Link) The ACC garnered seven individual event titles on Saturday, […]
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Record 8 of “Pack 9” Drafted
Despite yet another ‘nice’ season, Elliot Avent’s 10th season as NC State baseball coach ended like all of the others — without the Wolfpack bringing home any hardware of distinction after a 7th place finish in the country’s toughest conference. Don’t go over the deep end ASSuming that old SFN is against Avent and wants […]
Pack Baseball Season Over
For NC State baseball, it was more of the same: NCAA berth, no moving on to the College World Series. Despite taking out regional host (and national #3 seed) Texas, Stanford drubbed the Pack twice, by a combined 24-9 mark. IIRC, NC State has made just one super-regional since that new format was instituted (prior […]
Pack Baseball in N&O, not CHLT
Seven ACC baseball teams made the 64-team NCAA tournament field announced Monday, with North Carolina one of four regional hosts from the league and N.C. State the No. 2 seed at the Austin, Texas, regional. Special thanks to News & Observer for sharing with the world that both Carolina and State made the NCAA Baseball […]
State Advances in ACC Tournament
It is always good news when NC State beats Carolina in anything. Particularly in light of the recent performance on Lee Fowler’s entire Athletics Department against the Heels. After the woman’s softball team sweept the #2 seeded Tarheels en route to the department’s first ACC Championship in the last few years, the men’s baseball team […]
NC State Softball Wins ACC Title
See details here. The Wolfpack won the regular season title and the ACC Championship title in its third season as a program and received the ACC’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. The No. 2-seeded Wolfpack will face No. 3 seed UL-Lafayette on Friday, May 19 in Baton Rouge, La. The LSU Tigers host and […]
Falling Behind Carolina
We don’t link to The Robesonian very often. But, why not give the other set a bone or two? (You will know that things have gotten really bad here when we drive traffic toward’s the Asheville Citizen-Times; that is so bad that we won’t even hotlink the name of the newspaper here). The Robesonian proclaims […]
Baseball Team Takes Second Straight From #1 Georgia Tech
Jon Still’s RBI single to left field capped a three-run bottom of the 10th inning as 19th-ranked NC State rallied to defeat No. 1-ranked Georgia Tech 12-11 Saturday in the second game of a three-game Atlantic Coast Conference baseball series at Doak Field at Dail Park.
AP Breaking News: Lee Fowler Fires A Coach
Q: What does it take for “Coach” Fowler to fire a coach at NC State? A: Win 1 ACC game in five years, and have the AD’s daughter on the team. Shocking news out of the halls of Case tonight: NC State Director of Athetlics Lee Fowler has announced that head volleyball coach Mary Byrne […]
June 2: We’re #50!!!!
The most recent NACDA Directors Cup rankings of College Athletics Programs were released today. (You may recognize the “Directors Cup” from its former identity of “Sears Cup”). The June 2, 2005 rankings have Lee Fowler’s NC State Athletics Department holding firm at an embarrassing, but not surprising #50. Fowler’s program has averaged finishing #46.5 in […]
